11:28 PM,
Feb. 25, 2014

Louisiana Oil and Gas Association President Don Briggs was scheduled to testify this week in a court hearing in Baton Rouge on whether a law firm should have been hired on a contingency basis to sue oil companies over coastal erosion, but his testimony was delayed until March 10 because of his health problems.

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Louisiana Oil & Gas Association President Don Briggs' legal effort to sidetrack a lawsuit filed against numerous oil and gas producers seeking payment for damaging the state's coastline has been put on hold.

The delay came after Briggs' doctor said Briggs was not healthy enough to testify in the case. Briggs failed to show up at Monday's or Tuesday's hearings despite 19th Judicial District Judge Janice Clark's subpoena and threat of a bench warrant to have him arrested and brought to court.

She called a delay in the proceedings Tuesday morning after Briggs' Lafayette cardiologist, Dr. Nick ...